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assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us. standoff. this evening, in the face of ecuadorian indignation, the foreign secretary stuck to his guns. >> there are no time limits that is a problem more for the embassy and for mr. assange than for this country except for the fact that we are going to fulfil our obligations under the extradition act to sweden. >> reporter: so where on earth does this go now? well, absolutely nowhere, for julian assange. he's stuck. >> woodruff: curious about other famous asylum-seekers? you can watch a slideshow -- that includes roman polanski, sitting bull and others -- on our website. >> brown: now, agriculture and climate change in michigan. it's been a summer of drought impacting corn and other crops around the nation. but northwestern michigan has faced a different problem that's placed its signature cherry crop in grave danger. our report is part of our series on "coping with climate change". and again we turn to hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: how far can you spit a cherry pit? at the national cherry
assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us. standoff. this evening, in the face of ecuadorian indignation, the foreign secretary stuck to his guns. >> there are no time limits that is a problem more for the embassy and for mr. assange than for this country except for the fact that we are going to fulfil our obligations under the extradition act to sweden. >> reporter: so where on earth does this go now? well, absolutely nowhere, for julian assange. he's stuck....
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craig, thank you for being with us. military officials as we heard are now saying they have probable cause to hold the suspect. abc news was reporting late today of that he had confessed. why aren't they making his that i mean public yet? >> i think they're trying to get to the actual bottom of why he did this. there's not much question, judy, of who did this. as you reported, this soldier walked off the base, massacred these villagers, walked back on the base, turned himself in. panetta said yesterday that he essentially confessed. he said he did it. i think they're trying to figure out why he did it. they don't know if it was some sort of mental scars from his previous deployment. military officials said they were looking into whether alcohol found on this small military base may have played a role. in short, they don't know what led this guy to snap and walk off the base in the middle of the night and gun down and apparently burn 16 afghans, including... most of them women and children. >> woodruff: it's reported he'
craig, thank you for being with us. military officials as we heard are now saying they have probable cause to hold the suspect. abc news was reporting late today of that he had confessed. why aren't they making his that i mean public yet? >> i think they're trying to get to the actual bottom of why he did this. there's not much question, judy, of who did this. as you reported, this soldier walked off the base, massacred these villagers, walked back on the base, turned himself in. panetta...
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apple has changed how we see movies, how we use our i-phones and use computers. they have the creativity and the capital to make this better. they can make their products without horrible human sufferings. >> brown: apple says the findings and recommendations from the investigation will be posted for the public to see in early march. peter, first tell us a bit more about these factories. these are huge places, right? what's their exact relationship to apple? >> these are some of the largest industrial complexes in the world. there's one plant with with over 200,000 people. it's really a small city. has its own soccer stadium, police force, chicken farms. it's goes on and on. it also has dorms where, you know, a dozen people or more, sometimes stay. it's a company that foxconn employs 1.2 million people. it's very interesting. i mean there is a very different set of things going on in china. there's hundreds of thousands of people, young people, beginning of their lives maybe before they get married tend to come into the cities and get work at plants like these. t
apple has changed how we see movies, how we use our i-phones and use computers. they have the creativity and the capital to make this better. they can make their products without horrible human sufferings. >> brown: apple says the findings and recommendations from the investigation will be posted for the public to see in early march. peter, first tell us a bit more about these factories. these are huge places, right? what's their exact relationship to apple? >> these are some of the...
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it was just really intense and then we had cops yelling at us to get out get out. they're running around the neighborhood. it was insane. >> sreenivasan: the blaze still burned out of control today, and fire officials warned it was too dangerous for investigators to get in, just yet. >> i'm a veteran of the denver fire department for 20 years and to me it was like a movie scene. the whole side of the mountain is on fire. that's the only way i can describe it to you. >> sreenivasan: but fire managers were more optimistic about making progress aided by slightly better weather. >> we've been standing out here in the wind and it's been hammering us. just standing here at this news briefing it's been doing also, up in the forest. but today we're not going to have that. the weather looks like it' s cooperating with us and we >> sreenivasan: for now, many people are living in shelters-- at school gyms, hotel banquet rooms or tents in open fields. all told, more than 32,000 people have been forced to flee. >> we barely got anything. we just got a few backpacks with some cl
it was just really intense and then we had cops yelling at us to get out get out. they're running around the neighborhood. it was insane. >> sreenivasan: the blaze still burned out of control today, and fire officials warned it was too dangerous for investigators to get in, just yet. >> i'm a veteran of the denver fire department for 20 years and to me it was like a movie scene. the whole side of the mountain is on fire. that's the only way i can describe it to you. >>...
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tell us more about the targets here. they were clearly aiming at shiite neighborhoods and institutions? >> they were for the most part, jeff. mostly shi'a neighborhoods. in fact, even some in... near a shi'a shrine. but they were also aimed at security forces. some of them were gunmen opening fire on police here in baghdad and mystifyingly one of the targets appeared to be an elementary school. this was in the town of hillah... near the town of hillah south of baghdad where a car bomb exploded just outside the gates of a primary school injuring dozens of children. so a wide range of targets but all of them with a common denominator of seemingly seeking to destabilize security services here and instill fear-- which they did. >> brown: well, what is known about the insurgents who might have carried this out? who are they and tell us more about their possible aims? >> everyone's blaming it on al qaeda. "everyone" meaning from the interior ministry which said al qaeda was clearly to blame to the foreign minister who he spoke
tell us more about the targets here. they were clearly aiming at shiite neighborhoods and institutions? >> they were for the most part, jeff. mostly shi'a neighborhoods. in fact, even some in... near a shi'a shrine. but they were also aimed at security forces. some of them were gunmen opening fire on police here in baghdad and mystifyingly one of the targets appeared to be an elementary school. this was in the town of hillah... near the town of hillah south of baghdad where a car bomb...
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as we age, our immune systems age with us so it puts us at greater risk. other things we've seen are high blood pressure, being a risk factor as well as immunosuppression and conditions such as diabetes. >> brown: so in dallas as they're telling us they're about to start this aerial spraying. are there risks involved? there's been some nervousness there, i gather. >> and i can understand that. when i was with the c.d.c. i was part of the original outbreak in 1999 in new york city and it was the exact same thing where people not used to having aerial spraying or insecticiding. it's nerve-wracking, i can understand that. here in houston we are always spraying. as soon as there's an area that comes up positive for west nile virus then they are immediately throughout with the trucks spraying those areas and i think that's what attributes to the fact we have so few cases here in the houston area even though we have so many mosquitos positive. so from a public health perspective the spraying is going to be effective at helping to knock down those mosquitos popul
as we age, our immune systems age with us so it puts us at greater risk. other things we've seen are high blood pressure, being a risk factor as well as immunosuppression and conditions such as diabetes. >> brown: so in dallas as they're telling us they're about to start this aerial spraying. are there risks involved? there's been some nervousness there, i gather. >> and i can understand that. when i was with the c.d.c. i was part of the original outbreak in 1999 in new york city...
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>> well, because they wouldn't give it to us. but we were, you know, interested in looking at how medicare billing has changed over the years. this is the database that had millions and millions of individual billings by doctors. it was sort of the holy grail at looking at medicare billing. >> i tried to explain upcoding a little bit. when we get a bill from our doctor we don't know that there are five different at goers on how our visit was billed. >> that has been a mystery to patients for years. nobody looks at those numbers. they don't mean anything to anybody. but this fact they're representative of the amount of time that the doctor took with caring for you and the degree of effort that was put into the treatment. and they're correspondingly. what we saw over time was that the coding was just going up like this, sort of like an airplane taking off. it appears that there was no real explanation for it. >> sreenivasan: more and more of the visits were categorized at the highest level. how do you determine that kind of fine li
>> well, because they wouldn't give it to us. but we were, you know, interested in looking at how medicare billing has changed over the years. this is the database that had millions and millions of individual billings by doctors. it was sort of the holy grail at looking at medicare billing. >> i tried to explain upcoding a little bit. when we get a bill from our doctor we don't know that there are five different at goers on how our visit was billed. >> that has been a mystery...
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dawn, thanks for joining us. explain a little more for us, ina drew, how central a role she played in all of this. and are our departures expected? >> she didn't necessarily have a central role in conducting the trades or the positions that the bank had, that lost all the money. but she was the person that oversaw this office. the office in london that was so problematic for j.p. morgan reported up to drew. apparently drew had no idea what was going on or how bad things were. in fact, when the bank first started discovering how bad the losses were, she initially argued to try to keep the hedge on so that the bank could maybe see if it could wait it out a little bit. but that was based on wrong information because the lond often office just wasn't giving her all of the facts. >> warner: what about the people who actually ran the london office, who were conducting these trades including the so-called london whale, the trader who actually took these huge positions betting on credit indices or something like that. >>
dawn, thanks for joining us. explain a little more for us, ina drew, how central a role she played in all of this. and are our departures expected? >> she didn't necessarily have a central role in conducting the trades or the positions that the bank had, that lost all the money. but she was the person that oversaw this office. the office in london that was so problematic for j.p. morgan reported up to drew. apparently drew had no idea what was going on or how bad things were. in fact,...
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bill neely, thank you for joining us. tell us what you've been observing in damascus. how does the conflict look from where you are? >> well, i was last here two months ago and i would say then that the war was at the doorstep of damascus. i would say right now it's right in the front room of damascus and there's no question that president assad can look out his window any time he wants over this city and see it happening and hear it happening right in front of him. i've spent the last two days on the outskirts of three-- just as i speak there are more explosions in the background there. i've been on the outskirts of three districts in the south of the capital. now, they're not suburbs, they are in damascus city itself, and they are being bombarded relentlessly by the army which is also using russian-made mig warplanes. they say they're attacking rebels who are inside those districts and thaezhat bombardment has been going on for days. there are reports that dozens, if not hundreds of people have been killed. the rebels say they withdrew from those districts yesterday
bill neely, thank you for joining us. tell us what you've been observing in damascus. how does the conflict look from where you are? >> well, i was last here two months ago and i would say then that the war was at the doorstep of damascus. i would say right now it's right in the front room of damascus and there's no question that president assad can look out his window any time he wants over this city and see it happening and hear it happening right in front of him. i've spent the last...
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they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male, female, demographic information. and mitt romney's, they don't have as many examples on mitt romney's fund-raising but while team obama is using sarah jessica parker and george clooney dinners as fund-raising tools, romney has just sent out an e-mail, or his campaign has, inviting people win a day on the road with mitt if you contribute a few dollars. >> and they have done that with president obama. you could have dinner with both the president and michelle. that was something done a few months ago. that was copy cat exercise. >> suarez: and it doesn't really cost much more. unlike campaigns that reall
they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male,...
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it makes us inward looking. it makes us envious of other people. all the kinds of things that we have avoided as a people. if that turns against us, then i think our national security will be affected. >> today thed sad fact is that for the children who have the fewest options, the educational system is not delivering. if i can look at your zip code and i can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem. >> brown: you feel you can do that? >> i think increasingly if you are a child in difficult circumstances, the neighborhood school may simply not be the answer any longer. >> brown: there have been many reports. are you seeing something that has happened that has raised the bar here or raised the alarm level? what's the level of risk that you want us to hear? >> i think we should raise the alarm level. i think the level of risk is such that when a secretary of state calls this out as a national security issue, as a major national security issue, i think we need to stop thinking this is somehow a narrow education probl
it makes us inward looking. it makes us envious of other people. all the kinds of things that we have avoided as a people. if that turns against us, then i think our national security will be affected. >> today thed sad fact is that for the children who have the fewest options, the educational system is not delivering. if i can look at your zip code and i can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem. >> brown: you feel you can do that? >> i...
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it's about using u.s. courts to bring international human rights law into effect against multinational corporations. >> right. brown: trying to spit it out. mulley national corporations is what i'm trying to say. >> it involves a 1789 law, the alien tort statute. very simple, straight-forward law that says federal courts have jurisdiction over actions brought by aliens who have been basically injuredded by violations of international law or violations of treaties of the united states. this is oal business. the court heard arguments last term on whether corporations could be held liable under that statute. then it later ordered reargument on a broader question. that is whether these cases can be brought in u.s. courts against any defendant who committed a violation in a foreign country. and today the court heard arguments on that. it's hard to tell. it seemed a number of justices were not happy with business' approach which is to say there is no extra territorial application of this law, period. and yet als
it's about using u.s. courts to bring international human rights law into effect against multinational corporations. >> right. brown: trying to spit it out. mulley national corporations is what i'm trying to say. >> it involves a 1789 law, the alien tort statute. very simple, straight-forward law that says federal courts have jurisdiction over actions brought by aliens who have been basically injuredded by violations of international law or violations of treaties of the united...
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thank you for being with us. fair o to say this trial is about a lot more than what three young women did in an orthodox cathedral in moscow? >> absolutely. the political context is all here. this prank, protest, demonstration, performance took place at the height of the protests against putin in february when there was a sense of possibility, even inevitability to the demonstrations and the opposition. since then we've-- a lot has happened. putin has sent a message to the opposition through a number of measures that he's introduced. fines and raids on offices. and the like, that it's going to be harder for them to operate. meanwhile the leaders of the protests have found a lot of their momentum dissipating. they haven't got a program. they haven't got any real unity. so six months later you have this trial. the authorities calculate that they can make, they can use this to portray the opposition as marginal figures, weirdoes. the opposition sees it differently. they think this is an opportunity to show that this
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let's see what kind of story this branch will tell us. there's a number of caterpillars, one on this needle, one at the base of this needle. they're very cryptic like most creatures you don't really notice until they start moving. >> reporter: in a normal year it would be hard to find these particular caterpillars, but this is year 3 of a massive outbreak. >> these outbreaks occur every 20, 30 years. it's quite a natural phenomena. very few people actually get to witness them because they're on infrequent. it's just one of the natural phenomena of the forced eco- system. they're caterpillars for 4-6 weeks. it all depends on the weather. >> reporter: their thin green bodies blend in so well with pine needles it might be easy to overlook them but the caterpillars have one final met morpho sis in store. they drop their camouflage and the outbreak fills the forest with more adult butterflies at once than most people will ever see. >> there will be so many butterflies in the air that it will look like a snowstorm in august. it's simply somethi
let's see what kind of story this branch will tell us. there's a number of caterpillars, one on this needle, one at the base of this needle. they're very cryptic like most creatures you don't really notice until they start moving. >> reporter: in a normal year it would be hard to find these particular caterpillars, but this is year 3 of a massive outbreak. >> these outbreaks occur every 20, 30 years. it's quite a natural phenomena. very few people actually get to witness them...
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you can give us some specific examples of things you've heard? >> so workers in peak periods are working upwards of 60 hours a week, something between 60 and 70 is the norm at peak, but some are working beyond that, and even more importantly, sometimes they're working as much as 10 or 11 days straight without a day off. so that's clearly a period where they are suffering from fatigue and the risk of accidents increases. >> brown: when you add this up, were you surprised, and how would you assess the seriousness of the violations you found? >> we weren't surprised. i must say that these are pretty much the range that we normally find in chinese factories. and given foxconn's size and their resources, they actually are making much faster progress than most of the factories that we work with. >> brown: and what with of apple? do you see apple as an honest broker here and sincere in its desire to bring change? >> they are. they're very engaged. i've been to apple with top management. wove had very, very detailed discussions about our findings and app
you can give us some specific examples of things you've heard? >> so workers in peak periods are working upwards of 60 hours a week, something between 60 and 70 is the norm at peak, but some are working beyond that, and even more importantly, sometimes they're working as much as 10 or 11 days straight without a day off. so that's clearly a period where they are suffering from fatigue and the risk of accidents increases. >> brown: when you add this up, were you surprised, and how...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: tough new rhetoric dominated the presidential campaign during the last 24 hours. it was the latest evidence that the battle for the white house will be no holds barred. the pre-convention presidential campaign has become increasingly defined by acrimony and accusation. >> this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. >> they are just throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. >> ifill: a new war of words was launched tuesday, as vice president biden went after republican mitt romney in danville, virginia. >> romney wants to let-- he said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put y'all back in chains. >> ifill: republicans expressed immediat
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d how much do they know about us? >> ifill: jeffrey brown talks with author bill ivey about his prescription for remaking america's democracy. >> well, i think what we need is to rediscover progressive values and put them forward. i'm arguing for not bigger government but i think different government. >> woodruff: and scott schaefer of public television's kqed profiles a photographer who uses google's street view images to create art. >> you have this distinct feeling of decay. the images almost challenge the viewer. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... friends of the newshour. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to y
d how much do they know about us? >> ifill: jeffrey brown talks with author bill ivey about his prescription for remaking america's democracy. >> well, i think what we need is to rediscover progressive values and put them forward. i'm arguing for not bigger government but i think different government. >> woodruff: and scott schaefer of public television's kqed profiles a photographer who uses google's street view images to create art. >> you have this distinct feeling of...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... friends of the newshour. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: hurricane sandy began battering its way ashore today, threatening days of destruction. the huge system had 50 million people in its sights and was already being called a superstorm. the winds grew stronger by the hour. and the rain poured harder, soaking the east coast as the hurricane closed in. nine states declared emergencies, and people up and down the coast braced for heavy flooding, wind damage, and resulting power outages. >> i just got another load of sandbags to put around the doors to keep the water out. got the generator ready to go. and we're going to sit there and ride it out. no place
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thanks for joining us. the president said this is not amnesty, not a path to citizenship, but we just heard that for some opponents it has many of those very characteristics. how do you define it? what is this? >> well this is really a decision by secretary napolitano to continue to use the prosecutorial discretion that she has been using over the last several years to make sure the immigration enforcement caseload is not clogged with people who are low priorities for enforcement, and making sure they're spending the resource, that dhs is spending its resources deporting people who committed crime or pose a serious threat. this is really an extension of her authority to use prosecutorial discretion in a way which lifts the cloud of fear of deportation from folks who fit the criteria that dhs articulated today. it's not permanent. it's not a permanent solution. the president was very clear about that today. and he very strongly supports congressional action to resolve this problem in a permanent way. >> brow
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that kind of dug us into this hole. didn't it? >> well, it created the expansion that preceded this. no, it really didn't dig us into this hole. this is... you can't say that the hole was created by overspending. the problem here, the deep recession was created by the reckless behavior of large financial institutions and the unwillingness of the government to regulate them which created the financial meltdown. >> ifill: briefly, paul, what is the quickest way out of the hole? >> well, i'm not smart enough to that know that but i do know that the american public, it's very hard to drive the optimism out of the american public. even if this these kinds of times we are an optimistic people. we take these surveys all the time. we're beginning to see some doubts creep in. i would say whether your own financial future will be okay and the financial future of the country will be okay. most people still think yes but there are some doubts. >> paul taylor of the pew center and robert shapiro, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> wood
that kind of dug us into this hole. didn't it? >> well, it created the expansion that preceded this. no, it really didn't dig us into this hole. this is... you can't say that the hole was created by overspending. the problem here, the deep recession was created by the reckless behavior of large financial institutions and the unwillingness of the government to regulate them which created the financial meltdown. >> ifill: briefly, paul, what is the quickest way out of the hole?...
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no thaw's supply-side fairy dust and has served us very poorly. >> brown: give us specifics for what you see making what governor romney says a deficit-neutral tax cut plan. is it taxes or what specific cuts might be possible? deductions? what would happen? >> the cuts are the rates and that's the --. >> brown: i meant spending cuts. that's what i meant. >> he's not look at the spending side. he's saying let's look at things like mortgage deduction, exclusion of the health care, all of the personal exemptions, itemized deductions in the tax code right now and ask the question can we eliminate in part or in hole some of those and make this revenue neutral? the answer to that is unquestionably yes because we've seen the bowles-simpson commission do it, we've seen the variety of these studies, jared might not like them. the question is how would the government do it? i don't know the answer to that to be honest and that's a fair point. >> brown: that he hasn't been specific enough about which deductions? >> we know jared can write a plan that raises taxes on the middle-class. we know i
no thaw's supply-side fairy dust and has served us very poorly. >> brown: give us specifics for what you see making what governor romney says a deficit-neutral tax cut plan. is it taxes or what specific cuts might be possible? deductions? what would happen? >> the cuts are the rates and that's the --. >> brown: i meant spending cuts. that's what i meant. >> he's not look at the spending side. he's saying let's look at things like mortgage deduction, exclusion of the...
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she joins us now from new york. we're also joined by monica olive a young mother who is the founder of latin baby and publisher of a website that are geared toward latino families and naomi decker, vice president of the public relations firm beckerman. she is a mother of three who hassles written articles and editorials for commentary for the washington times and the wall street journal. we thank you all three for being with us. anne marie slaughter, to you first. what do you mean by "having it all"? >> i mean that women should be able to have the same choices as men. i think i regret the... that's the way the issue has always been formulated. when i was coming of age, i think today it sounds very entitled because there are so many americans who have very, very little but really what it means is that women should be able to have the same choices about being able to have a family and being able to have a career that men do. >> woodruff: you write for the longest time you believed that that was the case but now you do
she joins us now from new york. we're also joined by monica olive a young mother who is the founder of latin baby and publisher of a website that are geared toward latino families and naomi decker, vice president of the public relations firm beckerman. she is a mother of three who hassles written articles and editorials for commentary for the washington times and the wall street journal. we thank you all three for being with us. anne marie slaughter, to you first. what do you mean by...
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conversations help us learn and grow. at wells fargo, we believe you can never underestimate the power of a conversation. it's this exchange of ideas that helps you move ahead with confidence. because an open dialogue is what opens doors. wells fargo-- together, we'll go far. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the august employment report came in today, showing fewer than anticipated jobs created, and fewer americans still trying to find one. it was all fuel for the presidential campaign, with the conventions now over and 60 days to go until the election. for the president and his party, the celebrations at the democratic convention yielded to sobering new numbers on a s
conversations help us learn and grow. at wells fargo, we believe you can never underestimate the power of a conversation. it's this exchange of ideas that helps you move ahead with confidence. because an open dialogue is what opens doors. wells fargo-- together, we'll go far. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and...
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that same symbol was used by nazi s.s. forces that murdered millions of jews and others in world war two. a marine spokeswoman said the marines thought the symbol stood for sniper scouts. the nuclear regulatory commission has approved the nation's first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years. the vote today endorsed a plan to build two new reactors south of augusta, georgia. the last time the commission approved construction of a nuclear plant was in 1978-- a year before the partial meltdown at three mile island in pennsylvania. labor rights protesters called on tech giant apple today to improve conditions at chinese factories run by apple suppliers. in washington, the ethical iphone group delivered nearly 200,000 petition signatures. there were similar events in a half dozen other cities around the world. apple has come under renewed pressure over reports of cramped working conditions, long hours and high injury rates at chinese factories. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to ray. >> suarez: and
that same symbol was used by nazi s.s. forces that murdered millions of jews and others in world war two. a marine spokeswoman said the marines thought the symbol stood for sniper scouts. the nuclear regulatory commission has approved the nation's first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years. the vote today endorsed a plan to build two new reactors south of augusta, georgia. the last time the commission approved construction of a nuclear plant was in 1978-- a year before the partial...
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can you help us?" and the answer is yes, we can help, but it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on, not the one the president describeses a top-down cut taxes for the rich. that's not what i'm going to do. my plan has five basic parts one, get us energy independent, north america energy independent. that creates about four million jobs. open up more trade, particularly in the lain america, crack down on china, if and when they cheat. number three, make sure our people have the skills they need to succeed, and the best schools in the world. we're far away from that now. number 4, get us to a balanced budget. number five, champion small business. it's small business that creates the jobs in america, and over the last four years, small business people have decided that america may not be the place to open a new business because new business start-ups are down to a 30-year low. i know what it takes to get small business growing again, to hire people. now, i'm concerned that the path w
can you help us?" and the answer is yes, we can help, but it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on, not the one the president describeses a top-down cut taxes for the rich. that's not what i'm going to do. my plan has five basic parts one, get us energy independent, north america energy independent. that creates about four million jobs. open up more trade, particularly in the lain america, crack down on china, if and when they cheat. number three, make sure our people...
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every one of us. and if we delay putting off sacrifices, the pain is going to be much more difficult and much more severe. >> ifill: we look at which nations are best and worst at creating healthy mothers and children. >> woodruff: and we remember maurice sendak, the man who created the children's classic, "where the wild things are." >> it made my life pleasurable. i'm happy to have one book like that. pap pap pap >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> citi turns 200 this year. in that time, there have been some good days and some difficult ones. but through it all, we persevered. supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. and the next great idea could be yours. >> by nordic naturals. supported by the john d. and katherine t. macarthur foundation supporting a more just world. more information
every one of us. and if we delay putting off sacrifices, the pain is going to be much more difficult and much more severe. >> ifill: we look at which nations are best and worst at creating healthy mothers and children. >> woodruff: and we remember maurice sendak, the man who created the children's classic, "where the wild things are." >> it made my life pleasurable. i'm happy to have one book like that. pap pap pap >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's...
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. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i had never seen this before. what happened. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we look at the dashed hopes for a triple crown winner this year as the colt i'll have another is scratched from the belmont stakes after a leg injury. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the united states almost 30 years ago, i could not find an omega-3 fish oil that worked for me. i became inspired to bring a new definition of fish oil quality to the world. today, nordic naturals is working to fulfill our mission of bringing omega-3s to everyone, because we believe omega-3s are essential to life. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. >> and wi
. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i had never seen this before. what happened. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we look at the dashed hopes for a triple crown winner this year as the colt i'll have another is scratched from the belmont stakes after a leg injury. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on...
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she joins us tonight from new york city. in 2010 when the economy was struggling to add jobs we had guests on like you who said you can't look at any one month and say much of anything. but now that we've had three straight months of high growth, a year and a half of net job creation, is it safe to get into the water and start talking about a pattern, something we can really hold on to? >> i think so, ray. when you as you said you don't want to put too much weight on any single month worth of data. but it is important to start doing a little bit of addition and looking at what we're seeing on the employment front, having three very strong months of robust job growth well beyond the number of jobs we need to keep pace with the growth of the population, on top of 17 months of adding jobs every month to the economy. seeing the unemployment rate coming down, even as more people are entering if into the labor market, seeing wages increasing, seeing temporary help go up, seeing hours of work go up, all of that added together on to
she joins us tonight from new york city. in 2010 when the economy was struggling to add jobs we had guests on like you who said you can't look at any one month and say much of anything. but now that we've had three straight months of high growth, a year and a half of net job creation, is it safe to get into the water and start talking about a pattern, something we can really hold on to? >> i think so, ray. when you as you said you don't want to put too much weight on any single month...
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the biggest challenge for us right now remains new york. the three largest airports in new york are closed and will be closed for some of tomorrow and perhaps all of tomorrow. and that's a challenge because roughly one third of the u.s. air travel goes through the new york airport. so getting those back up and running will be the biggest challenge. others are already up and running. so airports in philadelphia and washington are beginning to take service again which is great news. >> warner: why is it prove... i know we're only a day into this, but difficult to reopen new york airports. are these just under water or is there damage? >> well, evaluating damage but so, for example, laguardia has some water on the runways. that needs to be pumped off. the systems need to be inspected both the lighting and landing equipment and the navigation equipment needs to be inspected. j.f.k. will likely open around noon tomorrow. some aircraft will be coming in there and hopefully starting full service again on thursday. newark right now is without comme
the biggest challenge for us right now remains new york. the three largest airports in new york are closed and will be closed for some of tomorrow and perhaps all of tomorrow. and that's a challenge because roughly one third of the u.s. air travel goes through the new york airport. so getting those back up and running will be the biggest challenge. others are already up and running. so airports in philadelphia and washington are beginning to take service again which is great news. >>...
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here's some of what they told us. these protesters only provided their first names. >> we have to come up with different ways of creating a system and a mechanism that will allow people to put forward their best work and to have it represented fairly. as soon as the people in the congress start hearing that message from the people, until their voices get louder and louder and they cannot ignore it, then they will get it. >> i have been active in causes in years past. i had given up on any substantial change in this country until the occupation. nothing like this has happened before. they said the first cold night we'd be gone. they said we wouldn't last more than a week. three-and-a-half, almost four months later, here we are. we're not going anywhere. i have never met a group of more committed, dead i caned people fighting for real change. >> woodruff: this all comes as wall street firms are in the midst of bonus season. bonuses are reportedly lower this year-- perhaps as much as 30% lower, in some cases. today the "
here's some of what they told us. these protesters only provided their first names. >> we have to come up with different ways of creating a system and a mechanism that will allow people to put forward their best work and to have it represented fairly. as soon as the people in the congress start hearing that message from the people, until their voices get louder and louder and they cannot ignore it, then they will get it. >> i have been active in causes in years past. i had given up...
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. >> woodruff: then, gwen ifill updates us on the tightening g.o.p. presidential race, one day before the south carolina primary. >> may hinge on the decisions on the state's most conservative voters. >> suarez: plus we'll have analysis from mark shields and david brooks. >> woodruff: from our colleagues at wisconsin public television, we have an update on the effort to recall governor scott walker. >> all of this was set in motion a year ago when governor walker and the republicans passed a bill that removes most collective bargaining >> suarez: and margaret warner looks at the federal shutdown of one of the world's most popular online sites, the file-sharing web site megaupload.com. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made
. >> woodruff: then, gwen ifill updates us on the tightening g.o.p. presidential race, one day before the south carolina primary. >> may hinge on the decisions on the state's most conservative voters. >> suarez: plus we'll have analysis from mark shields and david brooks. >> woodruff: from our colleagues at wisconsin public television, we have an update on the effort to recall governor scott walker. >> all of this was set in motion a year ago when governor walker...